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I found this guy eating my honeysuckles and Amaryllis’. What is it?
Minniemoe
Dear Minniemoe,
This is a Horse Lubber Grasshopper, Taeniopoda eques, a species generally reported from Arizona and Texas, so if you live in Maine, this sighting is very significant. If you were one of our photo students, we would probably question why you composed your image into a horizontal shot with wasted space that produced an unnecessarily cropped subject, cutting of the lovely orange antennae and wing tips. We took the liberty of removing the excess space but sadly, we could not re-attach the compositionally amputated body parts.
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